Re: science for all?

[Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>]

 From this URL (a book ad!  :
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520219783/002-7446575-0092021
 From Publishers Weekly
Who really said, "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics" Mark Twain
or Benjamin Disraeli? Best, professor of sociology at the University of
Delaware and author of several books, including Random Violence, settles
the question once and for all: Disraeli (whom Twain credits for his use of
the remark in his autobiography). The quote's misattribution is similar to
the twisted course statistics often take as they "mutate" into bar-chart
monsters with slim if any relation to the original numbers...

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Whatcott" <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: science for all?


> More a propos: that is indeed the quote by Twain.
> Where's the quote by Disraeli?
>
> Brian W
>
> At 02:40 PM 12/31/01, Bob wrote:
> > Apropos' :
> > http://www.twainquotes.com/Statistics.html
> >
> > Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
> > Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
> > trebor@velocity.net
> > http://www.velocity.net/~trebor
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brian Whatcott" <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>
> > To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
> > Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 3:23 PM
> > Subject: Re: science for all?
> > > . . .
> > > Actually, there are four kinds of lies:
> > > lies, damned lies, statistics, and quotations attributed
> > >   to Disraeli by Mark Twain.
> > > Brian Whatcott
> > >    Altus OK                      Eureka!
>
> Brian Whatcott
>    Altus OK                      Eureka!